Astro 1.0 Migration

Table of contents

• Who is this guide for?
• Pre-requisites
• Highlight of changes in Astro version 1
• Typical upgrade process

Who is this guide for? #

This guide is intended for developers working on an adaptive project that are looking to upgrade Astro version 0.18 to version 1.0.

Pre-requisites #

The two main requisites for this upgrade are:

• Willingness to remove support for iOS 8 from your project.
• Node v6 and npm v3.

Highlight of changes in Astro version 1 #

• Deprecated methods from JS have been removed
  • All deprecated methods were in NavigationPlugin.js
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.proxyCallToTopPlugin
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.navigate
      • Use navigateToUrl
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.reload
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.showPage
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.manuallyShowPageForHosts
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.setBackgroundColor
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.showScrollBars
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.hideScrollBars
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.enableScrollBounce
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.disableScrollBounce
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.enableScrolling
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.disableScrolling
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.setPageTimeoutDuration
    • NavigationPlugin.prototype.getCookie
• Java API surface has been shrunk
  • Methods/classes/variables that were never meant to be public were made private or package-private
• AstroWorker java has moved from package com.mobify.astro.plugins to package com.mobify.astro (one up)
• Removed iOS 8 support
• Webviews in the app now exclusively run on WKWebView, except for the worker
• Upgrade to Webpack 2.2
  • Released version of webpack
• Upgraded to Node v6 and npm v3 From node v4 and npm v2.
  • May require changes in build scripts because of npm 2 -> 3 and folder structure in node_modules

Typical upgrade process #

The typical upgrade process is as follows:

• From the root of your project, run git clean -Xfd. This removes all ignored files from your working directory.
• Update the progressive-app-sdk dependency in your package.json to 1.0.0-rc2.
• Run npm run deps from the native folder.
• If you have an Android application:
  • Build the app, the compiler will tell you if there are any issues.
• If you have an iOS application:
  • Check that your code doesn't include any codepaths specifically for iOS8 and earlier. If it does, remove these as iOS 8 is no longer supported.
• Inspect the code relating to the use of the NavigationPlugin. A lot of methods have been removed from the NavigationPlugin and there is no compiler to warn you about using them. You can see the list of removed methods above.
• Finally, run the app and verify all behaviour is as expected.